Facebook, a mention in a high school German competition, and twitter.Removing my character name and going to a white pages results in "There is 1 person with the name "" in the United States" I have no clue why I bothered to remove that.And what appears to be Arabic Facebook.

I'm not a fair comparison, because I use my real name all over the place and make my characters' names known on my blog. ;) So I'm in the dead center of the target market for the RealID forums, and I'm actually much more likely to post there once this change goes live.

(Besides, my name is so common it has a disambiguation page on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Anthony ;)

My real name comes up with a mountain of business contacts, linkedin, and all that sort of stuff. The mountain of business contacts is mainly because my company decided that it was a good idea to show off that they were hiring new personel...

My real name also gives where I live (or the general area because the company I work for is fairly high profile), where I work, what I do for a living, etc.

My character name gets a mountain of results as well. My blog has been around long enough to actually get quite a few results (yay, I guess). And since I have a fairly unique character name most of the armory links are mine that show up.

The combination doesn't give anything new. I don't mind the WoW world knowing about my character stuff. I do mind them knowing about my real life stuff, or at least this easily.

Also, I'm fine with future employers knowing that I play WoW (if they would not hire me because my hobby is gaming I would most likely not want to work for them), but I don't need them to know about everything on that side of my life.

My full name and my main's name, whether taken together or separately, do not come up with anything directly linked to me (not even my blog).

My real name is fairly common, so the RealID thing should be a non-issue for me, right?

Not so much. I'm less concerned about real threats to myself personally, than of the precedent this is setting and the bigger issue that Blizzard seemed to have this all planned, so I'm sure they were expecting this backlash, which to me says they obviously don't care.

You can't tell me Blizz didn't know their playerbase wasn't going to like having their real names displayed on public forums. My employer has made me sign paperwork indicating that I would never post under my real name on public forums because such information could link back to the company.

I'll no longer be using the forums, but at least I have my blog as an outlet. In the event I feel the need to give feedback directly to Blizzard about changes, I guess I'll be making GM tickets in game.

Blizzard sold it's soul to Facebook to make a couple extra bucks. For this reason I am not using RealID.